Back in 2008, I wrote a series of articles about using iTextSharp to generate PDF files in an ASP.NET application. I still use iTextSharp in a large MVC 5 application that I'm in the process of migrating to ASP.NET Core. The version I use is very old (4.1.6), and...

Both Kibana and Grafana are data visualization tools providing users capabilities to explore, analyze and visualize data with dashboards. The difference between Kibana and Grafana lies in their genesis. Kibana was built on top of the Elasticsearch stack, famous for log analysis and management. In comparison, Grafana was created...

The file upload feature requires essential validations to clean and maintain user data. Improper execution of a file upload input increases security vulnerability. So we must approve the uploaded files before sparing them on the server to reduce the vulnerability. Uploading files from clients to servers is among the...

Good UX design happens when you don’t notice it during or after the experience. The main goal of good UX design is to take the user on a specific mission as quickly as possible, with the least effort possible. In good UX design, very rarely do users notice the...

A Guide to Building Scalable, Maintainable Web API using ASP .NET Core The term “Clean Architecture” has become increasingly popular in software development in recent years. Clean Architecture is a software design pattern that prioritizes the separation of concerns, making it easier to maintain, test, and evolve an application over...

A Quick Guide to Transient, Scoped, and Singleton in C#. In C#, the Transient, Scoped, and Singleton scopes are options for controlling the lifetime of objects which are created by dependency injection. Transient Transient objects are created each time they are requested. This means that if a Transient is...

Design patterns are essential for creating maintainable and reusable code in .NET. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out, understanding and applying these patterns can greatly improve your coding efficiency and overall development process. In this post, we’ll take a look at the most important design patterns...

Introduction Today I am going to show how to create a simple PHP application following the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller). I was inspired by a PHP course I taught some years ago, and in which I built a simple e-commerce with the students. This e-commerce was based on a simple...

NCrunch NCrunch is a powerful tool that automates the testing and debugging of .NET and C# code. It integrates seamlessly into Visual Studio, allowing development teams to quickly identify and fix errors, ensuring that their projects are always of the highest quality. NCrunch is designed to increase the productivity...

In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to build a simple REST API with PHP and MySQL. REST has become the de facto standard when it comes to exposing data via APIs and building web services. In fact, most web applications these days access and expose data via REST...

Memory leaks have long been programmer’s worst nightmare in .NET. When it comes to production servers, memory leaks are one of the most common and annoying issues. As we all know production servers must operate with the least amount of downtime possible. But memory leaks slow it down and...

Вчера у меня в ленте на фейсбуке (жаль что в закрытом посте) проявился еще один аспект ChatGPT, жуть которого я не вполне осознавал. Представьте, что ваш менеджер присылает вам емейл: "я вот тут сгенерил с помощью ChatGPT код на языке описания аппаратуры SystemVerilog, который реализует мою идею, ты его...

OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. About 60% of the contractors were hired to...

Today we will see, how to enable Logging directly to Loki via Serilog for a .NET Core Microservice and visualize the logs in Grafana. Before we start, What is Loki? Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be...

Прокрастинацию принято считать разновидностью лени и ерундой, а эффективным лекарством от нее грозный окрик: «Соберись, тряпка!» На деле прокрастинация — опасная проблема, сродни зависимости, которая вызывает много вины и стыда, и способна со временем разрушить личность. Почему она так опасна, редко лечится попыткой «взять себя в руки» и как ее...

Управлять программистами в ИТ-компании – дело особое. Не сказать, что сильно сложное. Совру, если назову простым. Особое. Книжек, статей, курсов создано великое множество. Что-то помогает, у кого-то получилось. Собственно, промахнуться с оценкой сложно – отрасль ведь не просто существует, но и весьма активно развивается. Даже в нашей деревне. Значит,...

Какой HR (или рекрутер) не сталкивался с этой проблемой? Думаю, что все. Сколько копий сломано на эту тему? - Сейчас мы сломаем еще одно! Предполагаю, что сейчас все кадровики начнут кидать в меня тапками. Но умные и опытные вполне себе поймут, что мои тезисы защищают не только интересы разработчиков,...

Prerequisites: VSCode and .Net 7 installed. Don't need to copy the code, GitHub link provided in the end. Open up a terminal in VSCode or any IDE of your choice, run: dotnet new console 2 files will appear, default Program.cs and .csproj named according to your folder: Now let's...

Повторяться, но каждый раз по-новому – разве не это есть искусство? Станислав Ежи Лец, из книги «Непричёсанные мысли» Словарь определяет репликацию как процесс поддержания двух (или более) наборов данных в согласованном состоянии. Что такое «согласованное состояние наборов данных» – отдельный большой вопрос, поэтому переформулируем определение проще: процесс изменения одного...

You might already know that Google uses over 200 ranking factors in their algorithm… But what are they, exactly? Well, you’re in for a treat because I’ve put together a complete list. Some are proven. Some are controversial. Others are SEO nerd speculation. But they’re all here. And I...